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There's no such thing as the good old days

Less than 2% of the casualties of U.S. drone strikes are “high value targets”. The other 98% are civilians, children, and alleged enemy combatants. In Pakistan alone, over 3,100 people have been killed by drones since 2004. That’s a lot of innocent blood on our hands.

UPDATE: I would like to extend a sincere thank you to my friend, Virginia. In my haste to post this last week, I forgot to perform my due diligence and make sure this was not a misattributed quote. Unfortunately, Nietschze didn’t say this, but rather Rudyard Kipling. In hindsight, this doesn’t sound like Nietschze at all. Silly me.

Most people will remember today as the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. However, that’s been done time and again. Instead, I’d like to focus on the speech that I believe led to Dr. King’s assassination; Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence. Beyond Vietnam was a speech that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year to the date before his assassination. In the speech, Dr. King criticized the role of the United States Read More